Folktale Movies

Loosely inspired by folk tales, this film chronicles the mystical journey of a quartet of ageing animals fleeing their fates to find a place free...

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and...

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

A horror short that takes on the Southern tradition of covering mirrors that face your bed. If not covered, it is believed that spirits will enter...

Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is...

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind.

Oscar is a man whose sorrow echoes at the river. He laments the death of his wife by disproving an urban legend, and he is ready for whatever crosses...

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl...

Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero.

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

A short film that asks "What if, after the boy cried 'wolf', the rest of the town started doing it too?"

Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks...

The tale of an old ghost story - A disheveled mariner is haunted by an ominously fervorous bed-sheet ghost

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.